Sydney gets a bewilderment of escape rooms

What do you think that the collective noun for a group of escape rooms ought to be? Perhaps you didn’t think that such a word was necessary? Well, when, like Sydney, you hit a critical mass of rooms you need a word: And I’m voting for a ‘bewliderment’.

Escape rooms are the latest craze. You get locked in a room and have an hour or so to work your way through the clues and escape. They’re intrinsically geeky being a combination of puzzle-solving and a computer game brought to life and the ones we’ve played have been great fun.

Now in quick succession there are two more coming. Strike, of the bowling and laser-tag fame, has announced escapism to open at the King St Wharf. It’s pitched as: “One room. One team.50 minutes. A bit of thinking and a lot of fun.” As far as I can see there’s actually three different puzzle rooms available.

So that’s four sets of escape rooms, and counting: Which I’m going to label a bewilderment of escape room options at least until they’ve all been tested and reviewed and we can see a way to differentiate them.